Besides offering data analysis on mutual funds, stocks and hedge funds,
The company said it is going to be offering the research due to individual investors’ interest in derivatives.
“More individual investors are trading options,” said Philip Guziec, a derivatives strategist at Morningstar. In fact, he said, the options industry has been growing about 25% a year for the past few years.
Year to date through August, 1.82 billion equity options contracts have been traded on exchanges, up 37.5% from the same period in 2006, according to
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“Options are going more mainstream,” said Joseph Cusick, a senior market analyst for
Besides offering information on options, Morningstar is also considering offering the same for futures, Guziec said.